An accurate calibrate-able multiharmonic active load-pull system based on the envelope load-pull concept

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 656-664

  Hashmi, Mohammad S ^a,b   Clarke, Alan L ^a   Woodington, Simon P ^a   Lees, Jonathan ^a   Benedikt, Johannes ^a   Tasker, Paul J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active closed loop load?pull; Harmonic load?pull; Nonlinear measurements; Rapid load?pull calibration

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LOAD; CLOSED-LOOP; FLOW MODEL; HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS; HARMONIC LOADS; LOAD-PULL; MULTIHARMONIC; NONLINEAR MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR MEASUREMENTS; ROBUST CALIBRATION; SMITH CHART; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 77949540143     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2040403     Document Type: Article

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